4. Feeding children delicious adult food.

French parents don't destroy their kids' taste for good food before it's developed by feeding them chicken fingers.

They make them sit there and eat roquette salad and cassoulet de Toulouse.

5. Helping complete strangers out of a sense of social solidarity.

In America you avoid touching strangers for fear of legal liability if they get hurt while you're helping them. In Paris, if you see a blind or disabled person at a corner, it's considered completely normal to grab his arm and walk him across the street.

If you're out of spare change for a metro ticket and you don't have a pass, it's also very common for someone nearby to simply give you money to buy one. I had this happen several times, both as recipient and giver.

6. Bagging your own groceries while shopping.

I had to get used to having someone else handle all my food at the store when I came back from France. Perhaps this is why you never see grocery carts overflowing with unhealthy food.

7. Talking about politics at the dinner table.

Here in America, I at least was always taught that discussing politics at dinner was rude. But the French love frank, intellectual debates, and I can't recall any dinner parties where politics wasn't discussed.

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